Job Description

Middle School Academic Coordinator (Grades 6-8)

VOICE Charter School ( is an elementary and middle school located in Long Island City Queens that serves about 650 students across grades K-8. We are located just minutes from Manhattan (two stops outside of Manhattan on the F N and W train lines) and Long Island Citys growing waterfront district thriving arts community and rapid residential growth. We are looking to identify extraordinary educators and administrators committed to urban education who wish to join a dynamic professional learning community.

Our mission is to create a safe and healthy learning environment that will nurture motivate and challenge all of our children to achieve the highest level of academic excellence and to develop into mindful responsible contributing participants in their education their community and the diverse society in which we live.

What makes VOICE different

At VOICE its not just about the music. Its about the people. Its about what you can be. Its about using your passion. Its about relationships. Its about having the opportunity to choose. Its about caring enough. Its about each individual child and adult.

We believe in efficacy. At the core of our academic culture is the idea that all students are capable of doing well in any discipline. At VOICE all students will learn being smart is not something that you are it is something you become. At VOICE you will be pushed to become more.

We support and develop the effectiveness of our teachers. We believe that teachers need time to collaborate to build their practice so we provide our team with over two hours of planning time a day as well as additional days for collaborative thought partnership and planning during the school year.

We promote participation in music and the arts. As music and art help develop problem solving and critical thinking skills and open childrens imaginations all VOICE students participate in and learn from daily activities in the arts including rigorous choral training. We design our arts-integrated curriculum to bring joy and wonder to the lives of our children providing them with the skills necessary to forge their own path.

All Staff at VOICE:

• Love and nurture all of our students as they become deeply caring and responsible individuals;
• Take personal responsibility and work collaboratively to ensure that all students achieve and grow understanding that the performance and progress of our students is directly under our control;
• Ask questions and empower students to exercise curiosity and wonder about the world around them;
• Hold themselves to the highest standards;
• Push and support themselves their students and their colleagues;
• Proactively seek and incorporate feedback;
• Help each individual child gain the opportunity to choose what his or her future will be.

Position Responsibilities:

The Middle School Academic Coordinator helps students engage in a range ofeducation activities and promotes a safe school culture that nurtures motivates and challenges students to achieve the highest level of academic excellence and to develop into mindful responsible contributing participants in their education and communities. This role by supports the middle school faculty and staff in key academic and non-academic aspectsof the day.

Major Responsibilities

I. In the Classroom

- Maintain a productive safe and disciplined learning environment

- Uphold all school policies within the classroom

- Integrate feedback and goal-setting into lesson delivery

- Provide the differentiation and accommodations needed for the growth and success of all students

-Model strong written and verbal communication skills

- Invest time in knowing students and demonstrate an active interest in their well-being; use kind firm body language to convey authority and care

- Review and comply with guidelines of students IEPs follow IDEA reporting requirements and provide information about student performance and services received

- Collaborate with and provide feedback to classroom assistants in order to maintain a productive safe and nurturing classroom for students

As needed: May supervise out-of-classroom settings including but not limited to field trips arrival/dismissal transitions lunch and others.

II. Curriculum and Planning
a. In collaboration with colleagues implement daily curriculum plans that are purposeful rigorous engaging and aligned to standards; update plans as appropriate to meet students needs
b. Create documents to support daily and long-term curriculum plans including but not limited to scope and sequence curriculum maps lesson plans reteach plans intellectual preparation documents

c. Utilize student IEPs to inform instructional assessments that provide meaningful measurements of students growth toward the goals
d. Maintain records of student progress toward academic goals; meet deadlines for submitting student records to other departments

e. Keep families well-informed of student performance and progress through appropriate and professional communication methods

Position Qualifications:

Educational Background and Work Experience

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university
• Experience working in a school required
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred

Behavioral Qualifications

• Unwavering commitment to VOICE mission vision and values
• Models high standards of integrity trust openness and respect for others
• Demonstrates integrity by honoring commitments and promises
• Operates and follows through on assigned tasks and projects under specific time constraints and by specified deadlines
• Is productive and carries fair share of the workload; focuses on quality and expends the necessary time and effort to achieve goals
• Seeks to understand and meet and/or exceed the needs and expectations of customers and clients; treats customers and clients with respect
• Builds and maintains excellent positive relationships with and between team members
• Recognizes the constructive value of and embraces feedback
• Responds and adapts to developing challenges and obstacles when under pressure calmly and logically to develop working solutions in a timely manner
• Identifies and seeks to resolve and prevent problems
• Approaches new challenges as opportunities to improve skills and abilities seeking advice and feedback to constantly improve
• Seeks opportunities for personal and professional learning

Skills and Knowledge

• VOICEs mission vision values and culture
• Effective skills in self-management including but not limited to meeting deadlines effective prioritization of tasks self-organization managing up and efficient time and task management
• Ability to gather and analyze data using defined and differentiated processes
• Tact and sensitivity including but not limited to adhering to confidentiality obligations such as mandated reporting as part of child protection
• Ability to build strong and effective collegial relationships as part of an interdisciplinary team of educators and administrators
• Ability to build warm individual relationships with students
• Ability to communicate and build relationships effectively and appropriately with diverse range of individuals including but not limited to current and prospective children and families colleagues and external partners
• Teaching and classroom

VOICE Charter School is an Equal Opportunity its employment decisions VOICE does not discriminate on the basis of an applicant or employees race color religion sex gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation age national origin disability veteran status unemployment status or any other status protected by law.

Required Experience:

IC

Job Tags

Full time, Work experience placement,

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